They do nothin' in these parts but eat, drink, smoke, sleep, ride about, lounge at taverns, make speeches at temperance meetin's, and talk about 'House of Assembly.'" "We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents. His observations on life in Nova Scotia were pointed and sarcastic. He dispensed homespun homilies in an over-the-top regional dialect.Īn American outsider, Slick could criticize Britain and her colonial administration in ways that a colonist never could. Through Slick, Haliburton made pithy observations and critiqued Bluenose attitudes with acerbic wit. Slick cantered into public view on his horse Old Clay in September 1835 in Joseph Howe's To assuage his frustration, Haliburton created an alter-ego, Sam Slick, a Yankee clock maker who peddled his wares around Nova Scotia. Natural resources, while avoiding American vices. He maintained that Nova Scotians could help themselves if they emulated Yankee industriousness to exploit their abundant He believed cutting ties with Britain would result in absorption into the United States. However, he feared that a campaign for " responsible government" would end in aĭemand for independence from Britain. Haliburton thought protesting Britain's mismanagement of the colonies was justified.
To Napoleon's tyranny and had ended only in 1815. It was bolstered by memories of the violence of the American Revolution and years of war against the bloody French revolutionary republic, which led Conservative anti-republicanism and pro-British colonial patriotism A member of the conservative elite, Haliburton could not freely express his progressive opinions in Nova Scotia.
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